Very nice! The Mormon students and members of the faculty of Brigham Young University are upset that one Dick (Dick) Cheney has been invited to speak at their commencement.
They aim to disinvite Dick.

BYU campus protests Dick Cheney speech

By DEBBIE HUMMEL
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

PROVO, Utah -- Some students and faculty on one of the nation's most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month.

Critics at the school question whether Cheney sets a good example for graduates, citing his promotion of faulty intelligence before the Iraq war and his role in the CIA leak scandal.

The private university, which is owned by the Mormon church, has "a heavy emphasis on personal honesty and integrity in all we do," said Warner Woodworth, a professor at BYU's business school.

"Cheney just doesn't measure up," he said.

We've all had a boo-boo before. Was it because you were young (like I was) or was that Young Republican so hot that you couldn't resist?

True confession time:

What is Your Most Embarrasing Political Moment?

I'll show you mine if you show me yours...

The Nebraska Republican and frequent Iraq War critic, who previously teased us all with his announcement to announce that he would think about running for president, has hinted and mentioned that remedies exist for a POTUS who will not respond to the people.

When (if) Bush vetoes the bill that (eventually) will head to his desk with a specific (binding) timeline, What Will Chuck Hagel Do??

You all remember the Dick Cheney Oil task force that came into being shortly after the criminal regime came to power? Well, now the oil bill that came about because of those meetings is set to be pushed through the Iraqi Parliament.

Randy Rhodes had Antonia Juhasz, "an analyst with Oil Change International, a watchdog group, is the author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time."

Of course the oilmen and women who now make up the large part of our government are set to do right by their constituency: Exxon Mobile, Texaco, Chevron, BP, etc.

Antonia Juhasz has written in the New York Times an Op-Ed contribution, the link is below about how the oilmen have been waiting with baited breath:

Iraq’s oil reserves — thought to be the second largest in the world — have always been high on the corporate wish list. In 1998, Kenneth Derr, then chief executive of Chevron, told a San Francisco audience, "Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas — reserves I’d love Chevron to have access to."

An evil presence who makes himself known with ominous music and a purposeful stride, knocking minions out of the way with a flick of the wrist. Choking the life out of those who disappoint him.

Will Scooter fall on his light saber for Darth Vader?

The Sandbox, the milblog from Doonesbury's Gary Trudeau, is an excellent source of frontline stories from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Welcome to The Sandbox, our command-wide milblog, featuring comments, anecdotes, and observations from service members currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is GWOT-lit's forward position, offering those in-country a chance to share their experiences and reflections with the rest of us. The Sandbox's focus is not on policy and partisanship (go to our Blowback page for that), but on the unclassified details of deployment -- the everyday, the extraordinary, the wonderful, the messed-up, the absurd. The Sandbox is a clean, lightly-edited debriefing environment where all correspondence is read, and as much as possible is posted. And contributors may rest assured that all content, no matter how robust, is currently secured by the First Amendment.

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From the blog itself comes the Chuck Norris story and marijuana in Afghanistan on the flip...

Crossposted at Progressive Historians

Adam Hochschild, writer of King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa a book President Bush has said he's actually read, not the Cliff Notes, not the cartoon version, not the puppet show explaining the fine points--no, he actually read it, a la the Very Hungry Caterpiller. Hochschild draws parallels between the Belgians' experience in Africa and, well, you know...

First, as you now know, the long effort by King Leopold II of Belgium to bring Congo under his control was driven by his avid quest for a commodity central to industry and transportation: rubber. Does that remind you of anything?

What happened to their dignity? I get it. You wanna win, but COME ON! You're just downright ridiculous.

I hope you can follow my mind on this day of thought after yesterday's very disturbing events in my country. A thousand words to sum up politics in my lifetime:

Anyway, I walk into the staff room and scan the announcements on the board, there's a new one catching my attention because it's red. It's a call to action...

What does Wink Martindale have to do with this?

take a look on the flip...

Iran does not have intercontinental- range missiles and has yet to conduct a flight test of a multistage rocket. There has been concern that Iran might develop the technology it needs to build such a weapon in the guise of a civilian space program. But some experts say it is a long way from developing such a system.

The Pentagon plan calls for installing 10 antimissile interceptors at a European site by 2011.

Would it be silly and too obvious to ask why we would desire to build an anti-missile shield against a country without missiles? Not with the lunatics running the asylum, I guess...

Why not spend elsewhere where it's needed?

Pshaaaa!

10 years from now my son will be old enough to have a driver’s license…
10 years from now President Gore will be in his second term…
10 years from now global warming be a national priority…
10 years from now terrorism will be a forgotten nuisance…

I teach immigrant children and he knows this. He simply does not care. I am posting the propaganda on the flip.

Did I mention I've taught the children of immigrants (or immigrants themselves) for a decade?

And by the way, yes I'm peeing in the wind, but it made me feel better. We have got to call people on their bullying mentality. Be silent, be complicit.

Creative Juices where we come to observe and comment on the world with creativity and humour. Check me out, I'm on the front page (at Chuckie Cheese)

But it's not all about me! Pimp yer own blog...there are many thousands looking in...

I teach the people, the children whom so many toss about like political footballs. They are my students. Some are what the press would call "Illegal" . Such a warm tone, this term. Can you imagine being deemed "illegal"? Is the following a typical point of view?

    MASSIVE ILLEGAL ALIEN'S PROTESTS
    CALLS FOR FEAR "NOT" SYMPATHY FOR THEM!

    (Setauket NY USA 27 March 06) In reality it is scary to see "hundreds of thousands" illegal aliens across our country brazenly making demands in a country they don't belong. Americans should awaken to the fact and fear of the danger that these illegal aliens have the potential to present. (Are we already becoming a third world nation?)

Six-thousand girls per day are mutilated in their genitals. 6-0-0-0. Meanwhile, 600,000  women and girls YEARLY die during childbirth.

Quite a byline for Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the L.A. Times today:

Women and 'gendercide'
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch legislator, lives under 24-hour protection because of death threats against her by Islamic radicals since the murder of Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the film -snip-

* In countries where the birth of a boy is considered a gift and the birth of a girl a curse from the gods, selective abortion and infanticide eliminate female babies.

* Young girls die disproportionately from neglect because food and medical attention is given first to brothers, fathers, husbands and sons.

I know you want to get up and cheer!

In his two most grave moments as President, September 11th 2001 and August 29 2005 the man has sat and done nothing.